Today the world is not of those old days when people used to stick to their promises.
On every step you will find people breaking promises, going against their word, cheating you when you weretrusting them.
But what can they cheat? – just material things.If you lose trust, then certainly they have destroyed you.
Trust is non-material, it is spiritual.
If you trust me and if you feel happy with it, then trust the whole world. These five billion people have not cheated you, these millions of stars have not cheated you, these trees and oceans and rivershave not cheated you.
Just a few people may have cheated you – and because of those few people you are going to distrust existence?
This will be a loss.
You will be losing your own beautiful quality.
I am in favor of trust as a quality, not as a relationship.
Don’t make it dependent on the other person,on what he does.
You trust him because he is human. And human beings have their weaknesses,their frailties, their limitations; you trust them in spite of all their weaknesses, all their frailties, all their limitations.
This trust will become a solid rock within you, a foundation of a new being, of a new life.
And perhaps if you had that solid foundation, even those people who have been cheating you may not be able to cheat you.
Just your very being...
I was asleep in the train, and there was only one other person.
I was in the upper berth. In the middle of the night the person was getting out of the train.
It was a beautiful chance, because all my luggage was on the floor and he saw that I was asleep.
So he told his servants to take everything.
Just my money was in a pocketbook.
So when he had taken everything out, I said, ”Wait!”So he said, ”Are you awake?”I said, ”I have been awake all the time.
You have taken everything; just this pocketbook is left with the money I have.
Take this too.
Always do everything totally.”He said, ”My God... ” He said to his servants, ”Bring his things back, he is dangerous.”
And the station master came running – ”What is the matter?” – and the driver and the conductor, and the man was trembling that I would tell them that he was stealing everything.
I said, ”It is nothing.
Just by mistake he has taken everything out.
His mistake was not complete,and I am against things which are not complete. So I was giving my money to him, telling him, ‘Take this too, so everything is complete.’”
They said, ”Should we catch hold of this man and give him to the police?”I said, ”No, because he is a nice fellow.
He didn’t accept the money and he has brought all the things back.”He was in such a nervous state that he left one of his bags also with me.
I had to send his bag back from the next station telling them, ”Find this man.” At least there was a name on the bag – ”So find him.” He was really a good man.
He got so nervous... perhaps it was his first effort to steal things.
But human beings are human beings.
What was he doing? just taking a few things which don’t belong to me.
Nothing belongs to anybody, but trust belongs to you.
Things don’t belong to you, so let your trust be as cosmic as possible.
OshO 💕
CHAPTER 35. BHAGWAN RAJNEESH, THE BUDDHA LORD MAITREYA
The Osho Upanishad
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